Depriving MPs of immunity - instrument of pressure, political blackmail - Moldovan president says

Chisinau, 21 March /MOLDPRES/- President Igor Dodon believes that the purpose of the initiative by the Democratic Party of Moldova to deprive MPs of immunity is to get an additional instrument of pressure and political blackmail, the presidential press service has reported.

The head of state considers that so the government will try to intimidate the opposition MPs with fabricated cases in order to shut them or force them to be “neutral”.

Dodon also thinks that the intention will allow exercising indirectly pressures on the presidential institution.

“Hitting the Socialist lawmakers via fabricated cases, they will seek to make me more conciliatory towards their anti-social and geopolitical projects”, the president said.

In the context, Dodon said that the Democrat MPs will not be affected by the lack of immunity, as the Prosecutor’s Office will not dare to investigate them, and for this reason, the withdrawal of parliamentary immunity cannot be accepted now, because it does not make sense.

“Only after the next parliamentary elections, we will be able to seriously consider this draft law. When the state institutions will be credible and will not be monopolized politically, only then giving up the parliamentary immunity will be reasonable. Then politics will give in justice. Now politics rules everything. We have Democrats in government, but we do not have true democracy in the country. It means that deprivation of immunity is unacceptable in a state where the law is a servant of political leadership”, Dodon concluded.